Klarinet Archive - Posting 000407.txt from 2002/12

From: "P. Wagner (E-Mail)" <access@-----.ch>
Subj: AW: AW: [kl] Reed strength
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 15:39:08 -0500

> -----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Deidre Calarco [mailto:dleigh@-----.org]
> Gesendet: Montag, 16. Dezember 2002 15:21
> An: klarinet@-----.org
> Betreff: Re: AW: [kl] Reed strength
>
>
> On 12/15/02 7:59 PM, "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net> wrote:
>

>
> Bingo. In my experience, it's fine to use "black" as a
> descriptor i.e.
> "Kevin? He's the black guy in the blue sweater standing by
> the door," but
> the big lips thing is a stereotype and some will find it
> offensive.

Why is this a stereotype?
Lips contains muscles. Or not?
Is it false, that men with roots in Africa has on an average more muscles
than men with white skin?

> Here in
> the US anyway, people with African ancestry have all
> different kinds of
> features, partly because they're as ethnically mixed as the
> rest of us, and
> partly because people from different parts of Africa look
> different from
> each other, just like people from different parts of Europe
> or Asia do.
>

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